Changing Climate

Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports on the impact climate change has on the summer season.

At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service.

A new world weather agency forecast says it’ll likely be so hot in the next five years that there’s a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an “above-normal” 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13-20 named storms expected. Of those named storms, six to ten are expected to be hurricanes and three to five could be major hurricanes, according to acting NOAA administrator Ben Friedman, who delivered the outlook ...

Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast in 2012. New research released Tuesday reveals how much climate change contributed to the storm’s damage. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports.

New research shows forests about five times the size of Virginia have regrown in the past 20 years. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports.

New research shows human-caused warming from burning fossil fuels has led to record levels of carbon dioxide again this year. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports.

Experts say the takeaways from the pandemic are that there must be a shift to renewable energy — and the financial resources to make it happen. Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports.

An offshore wind project off Massachusetts that would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes, was approved by the federal government. The Vineyard Wind project, south of Martha’s Vineyard near Cape Cod, would be the first utility-scale wind power development in federal waters. The $2 billion project was approved Tu...

A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California’s huge wildfires last year.

April was a quiet month for tornadoes across the country. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports.

NBC 6 Investigators reviewed data from the U.S. Census and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and found 416,536 people in 196,981 homes in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties are in jeopardy when the sea level rises two feet.

The Senate vote on methane is the first official reinstatement of one of more than 100 climate regulations dismantled by the Trump administration.